Open Street Map (OSM)

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. OSM is considered a prominent example of volunteered geographic information.

Data are collected using manual survey, GPS devices, aerial photography, and other free sources. This crowdsourced data are then made available under the Open Database License.

Date ( Creation ): 2004-07-01

Identifier: dataset

Purpose: Mapping, Analytic

Status: On going

Point of contact

Openstreetmap Foundation - ( )

St John’s Innovation Centre Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WS United Kingdom

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

Keywords ( Place )

World

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Buildings
Protected sites
Production and industrial facilities
Hydrography
Transport networks
Land use
Administrative units
Human health and safety
Land cover

Keywords ( Theme )

MOOD-H2020

Use limitation: Copyright

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Other constraints: {"id":"odbl","name":"Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)","url":"http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl","quelle":"Source: OpenStreetMap"}

Other constraints: Copyright and License information: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Excerpt from it:

"You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities.

We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”. "

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Description: World

Begin date: 2004-07-01

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distribution format

XML ( )
PBF ( )

OnLine resource: OSM Website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OSM Website

OnLine resource: Planet wide data dump from OSM - adviced to use a mirror ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Planet wide data dump from OSM - adviced to use a mirror

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Other citation details: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1089/2014-12-31

Explanation: See specified reference

Pass: Yes

Statement: derived from crowdsourced volunteered geographic information; data are collected using manual survey, GPS devices, aerial photography, and other free sources; data quality varies